Education Seychelles Project #6374

Advancing Young Lives Through Education Seychelles

by Action Change (Formerly GVI Trust)

Project Report | Dec 3, 2013
Moving forward with the Renewable Energy Project

By Sophie Birkett | Charitable Trust manager

Aerial view of the Children's Home

Dear Supporter,

The GVI Seychelles Marine Expedition began working with our Charitable Trust, the President’s Village Children’s Home, in 2010.

GVI Seychelles successfully transformed the terrestrial expedition base on Curiuese to run off a solar power system last year. The system now provides power almost 24 hours a day and GVI wanted to bring that same success to the President’s Village. After a series of meetings and site visits with GVI, President’s Village and local renewable energy experts, GVI presented a proposal to the President’s Village with options for their own solar power system to reduce their costs, enabling them to put those savings into other projects that would directly benefit the children.

One option is to start with funds currently available and install solar panels on individual houses at the President’s Village.

The other option is to continue fund raising and aim to install a much larger solar panel system on the main building that uses the most electricity and has the highest utility bills.

While the President’s Village is deciding which option to choose, GVI Seychelles continues to fund raise and is currently preparing for their next fund raising event, the Beaches of Mahe Challenge on Thursday, October 10^th. Regardless of which option they choose, installing a solar panel system at President’s Village will help them reduce costs while conserving valuable resources here on Mahe.

Thank you for supporting the Children's Home throughout 2013 and I look forward to bringing you more news about which option we are moving forward with!

Many thanks

Sophie

Links:

http://www.gvi.org

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Sep 12, 2013
New Aims for Presidents Village Children's home

By Sophie Birkett | Charitable trust manager

Dear supporter,

I hope this finds you well. Some exciting news! As per our previous reports, the aim for this project was to focus on providing the Presidents Village' Children's home with a playground. However, thanks to an incredibly generous donor, a very nice playground has been donated to the home! As such, the needs of the home have changed and we wish to continue supporting them.

As you will soon see, the general text on this GlobalGiving project page will soon change. With limited funding, the home struggles with the ongoing maintenance and currently spends a large sum of money each month on their utility bills. As such, the GVI team met with the President’s Village and suggested the idea of a renewable energy project at President’s Village to which we received their full support. The GVI team in the Seychelles have a lot of experience with renewable energy projects, having set up a research base this way just last year.

With the installation of 19 solar panels and equipment, we can help the President’s Village save thousands of dollars each month, not only saving the President’s Village money, but also teaching the next generation in the Seychelles about renewable energy and conservation, something that we are passionate about.

We hope to begin spending this money soon. We have Christmas coming up, during which time we spend money on gifts for all of the children. In addition to that,we are in the assessing and planning stages and are working with renewable energy experts to come up with a clear plan moving forward. The cost currently looks to be around 10,000 GBP, which is our current goal target anyway.

I hope you are as excited about this project as we are. We feel that this will alleviate such a huge burden for the home and will be a real long term initiative that not only helps, but is also great environmentally.

Thank you for your support and if you have any further questions about this new initiative, please do let me know at info@gvi.org

Many thanks

Sophie Birkett

Links:

http://www.gvi.org

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Jul 11, 2013
Another Charity Challenge and Creole Day

By Sophie Birkett | Charitable Trust manager

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